FWIW, back when I used to code (physics modeling), I just built a pretty reasonable library of functions for the quaternion crap then forgot everything that it took to build those libraries.... Still used the libraries constantly, but I no longer understood them.

I had to take a class titled "Business Math" unfortunately the assigned teacher went out on sick leave. The back-up teacher was the Electronics teacher. The first night he assigned the problem and his hint was the "truth table would have 500 entries". I got up packed up my stuff and started to leave. He asked me why I was leaving and I told him there is no answer in the world I care about enough to create a truth table with 500 entries.

Hey, this post bugs me, and if you give me a secant I'll explain why. Guys that have been out in the sun don't always buy watermelon and co. Tan gents also like to buy papaya and other summery fruits, cosecant get them very often.

As a kid long division involving bigger numbers. I still can't do that by hand to save my life. As an adult, algebra 2. Nope fuck that x shit. Ironically I now have a job that deals alot with variables. 🤷‍♀️

I haaaaate algebra. The reasoning for things is always “because it is” or “because you do”

I understand I don’t need to know the upper level, advanced explanations, but I can not grasp the process just because “it is”. I need a reason to grasp concepts. Algebra, chemistry, and physics are the absolute worst at never explaining at the basic levels

High school math teacher here. As much as I love anything maths, I still want to shove my pen up my urethra (and not as a fetish thing) whenever I come across Rates Of Change (I think that’s what it’s called? I’m not English). Probably a leftover reaction from my blind rage at physics back in high school